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It's
Alex J. Cavanaugh's time again, a time to review what has happened in the last month and share. For too long, I have written very little of my sequel,
River Dark. I told myself that it was because my husband is constantly ill, that I hated sequels, that the book wasn't any good.
So I resorted to N.L.P., listening on the iPod every night for a week or so and have programmed myself to return to work. With a re-wired brain -good old N.L.P. - I now find that every morning, the task of recommencing the sequel is no longer a chore, and that I now have a more than positive attitude to the book. However, the wonderful reviews I received from you, concerning my poetry book
Kaleidoscope, also encouraged me to keep going. So thank you all.
Kaleidoscope - Poetry by Carole Anne Carr [Kindle Edition]
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These poems are wonderful! I absolutely love them. They draw the reader in from the first line, and one feels not only totally engaged, but often greatly moved. Artistic sensitivity is in evidence throughout - pictures are painted with colour and texture and vivid appeal to the senses, all making for wonderful imagery and use of metaphor. To me this is a very fine collection of poems, which I find myself mysteriously drawn back to, such is the freshness and pull of the narrative.
Weaving youth to adulthood in a women's poems. 8 Jan. 2015
By Patricia Kennington - Published on Amazon.com
‘Kaleidoscope’ by Carole Anne Carr, is a story of child-woman growing into woman-child. Her shared lyrics become a vehicle to convey dreams, memories, hopes, and desires for “the more.” Through her poems, Carole invites us to relive and feel both the clarity and confusion of moving from child to adult. Her poetry encourages us to re-experience the poignant and the painful, self-realization, and the recognition of human failure. We return to past decisions, joys, failures, and the anguish of being alive and moving on.
Patricia Kennington, TSSF, Ph.D., Spiritual Director
My May Newsletter goes out today with this month's free book offer. I do hope you will sign up for this, the form is in the column on the right. It is my first attempt at such a thing. The interest rate in my first newsletter at Easter was 60%, so very hopeful. Thank you and hugs for being kind enough to get this far with reading my post xx
Fairy Tales ....from Kaleidoscope
she stares into the fire and weaves
castles, dragons, caves into stories
shutting out loneliness and bitter weather
remembers pages of well loved fairy tales, wishing
to be carried off to that land where things happen
and she is the princess, dazzling, beautiful
where the hot bellied dragon
gazes in awe at the sight of her
unable to gobble her up
wanting to be loved and take the hero’s place
and carry her off to his bed of emeralds, pearls
and other hoarded treasure
but knowing tradition on these occasions
she marries the prince, allows chaste kisses
for a place at the castle
years late, remembering the dragon
she sighs regret, wonders if he ever forgave her
and if another, gazing into embers on a winter’s night
made the right decision.
Congratulations Beth, Sally and Z Marie! You are the winners of the
Kaleidoscope giveaway.
Thank you
everyone for entering here or on my
Facebook page! And a big thank you to
Little, Brown and Company for sponsoring the giveaway!
To win a copy of Kaleidoscope, leave a comment below by Sunday, May 20. Three commenters will receive a copy! Please include an email address so I can reach you.
Created by Salina Yoon
$12.99, ages 3 and up, 18 pages
Artist Salina Yoon pays tribute to mirrors, angles and ordinary objects in this charming, interactive book.
Readers fold out the cover and look through a clear plastic lens to see swirling, symmetrical designs reminiscent of those seen through a toy kaleidoscope.
The lens looks something like a flattened crystal with multiple flat faces and angles, while the designs mimic those made by loose objects in the optical toy.
One design leads to another over eight diecuts -- each inspired by circular objects that mark a change in seasons. Among them, a snowflake, pinwheel and steaming pie.
As readers view the book, a poem whisks them along. "Raindrops plopping, / splashing, splashing! / Skipping, turning, / Children dashing," the book begins near an open umbrella.
To simulate the effect of turning or shaking a kaleidoscope, readers rotate a tab on the cover, which in turn, turns the 2-inch lens. The result is a constantly changing set of colors and patterns on the page
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Tara Lazar,
on 3/29/2012
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Thanks to everyone who visited Salina Yoon’s post about her newest and most challenging novelty book, KALEIDOSCOPE. The winner of the signed copy is:
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Last year I did a Poetry Friday post on an anthology of children’s poems that featured a book called Inner Chimes. I excerpted a snippet of a poem I liked by British writer Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) and as a result became curious about her. After reading her biography, I sought out her books. Our local library did not have lot of her books available for loan. Many are out-of-print and some, in fact, were housed in the juvenile reference section which require special permission to view. One book, however, of her most famous hymn-poem “Morning Has Broken” was available in a picture book format illustrated by Tim Ladwig (Eerdmans, 1996) I took it out and read it to my daughter, and then showed her a Youtube of Cat Stevens‘ famous rendition of the hymn. It was a great way to enjoy the poem! I was also able to take out Kaleidoscope (illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Oxford University Pres, 1963.) Kaleidoscope is a collection of short lyrical sketches about a young boy named Anthony and his childish but deeply poetic perceptions of the world. In her Foreword, Farjeon explains
how the character of Anthony was based on a poet acquaintance of hers who had grown up in the countryside. As writers, they shared memories of their past childhood — hers of a girl growing up in London and he as a boy in Somerset. I was impressed by these prose sketches by Farjeon, seemingly lighthearted in tone, but profoundly perceptive at the same time. She seemed to capture that essential childish awe and wonder that is of the nature of the poet, who perceives and then delights in words. As old as the book is, it does not feel dated; the observations are not sentimental nor trite. I enjoyed reading these sketches, mostly for myself although I did try reading a couple to my daughter. If you can find Farjeon’s books in your library, I’d recommend seeking them out. They are little treasures from the past, well worth savoring today.
This week’s Poetry Friday host is Laura at Writing the World for Kids.
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I could really use this on an upcoming plane ride -- for the kids, of course.
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This book looks wonderful :) Hope I win!
This is awesome. One of our quilts that we are making at the quilting retreat this weekend is a kaleidoscope quilt. [email protected]
This looks like a wonderful book.
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